Descriptive Analytics and Visualization : From PivotTables to Power BI and Data Storytelling
Overview
What moved, why, and the chart that says so.
A report that answers a diagnostic question with a descriptive picture wastes everyone's time. This book runs from the pivot table to a tested executive dashboard, by way of the analyses that actually explain a change.
Ten bad charts are rebuilt in full, and the last chapter is the one-page memo that turns a finding into a decision.
What you will be able to do- Variance, the price-volume-mix bridge, cohorts, retention and lead times
- Concentration, seasonality, trend and residual - read correctly
- What a chart encodes, how to choose one, and the axis that lies
- The model behind a dashboard, and the same measure in DAX and in SQL
- Designing an executive dashboard and testing it with three users
Analysts and managers who publish reports, and anyone whose dashboard is being ignored.
The labsEvery chapter ends with a practice lab. Each one can be worked in the tools you already have, or in a free browser version that checks your answer as you go - no account, no install. The address is printed inside the book.
About the seriesAnalytics at Work is an eight-book series for business professionals. All eight run on the same thirty-six months of enterprise data from Cedar Ridge Brands, a fictional American consumer-goods maker. This is Book 4 of 8.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9798178779736
- ISBN-10: 9798178779736
- Publisher: Independently Published
- Publish Date: October 2026
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.55 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.78 pounds
- Page Count: 260
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